7/30/2025

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Operator
Conference Operator

Greetings and welcome to the LSB industry's second quarter 2025 earnings conference call. At this time, all participants on our listen-only mode. A brief question and answer session will follow the formal presentation. If anyone should require operator assistance during the conference, please press star zero on your telephone keypad. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to introduce your host, Christy Carver, Senior Vice President and Treasurer. Thank you.

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Christy Carver
Senior Vice President and Treasurer

You may begin. Good morning, everyone. Joining me today are Mark Behrman, our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Cheryl McGuire, our Chief Financial Officer, and Damian Renwick, our Chief Commercial Officer. Please note that today's call includes forward-looking statements. These statements are based on the company's current intent, expectations, and projections. They are not guarantees of future performance, and a variety of factors could cause the actual results to differ materially. For more information about the risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected or implied by forward-looking statements, please see the risk factors set forth in the company's most recent annual report, Form 10-K. On the call today, we will reference non-GAP results. Please see the press release posted yesterday in the Investors section of our website, lsbindustries.com, for further information regarding forward-looking statements and reconciliations of non-GAP results to GAP results. At this time, I'd like to turn the call over to Mark.

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Mark Behrman
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Thank you, Christy, and good morning, everyone. Page 4 of our presentation summarizes highlights from the second quarter. Sales volumes increased 6% year over year, driven by solid improvement in sales volumes of AN and UAN. These gains are the result of higher ammonia production and better performance by our upgrading plans. We're pleased that our efforts to improve the reliability and efficiency of our facilities are yielding results, and we expect to make further progress in the second half of 2025. We achieved our increase in production and sales volumes during the second quarter, while having zero recordable injuries across the organization. I want to congratulate our entire team for embracing our Protect What Matters core value and demonstrating that Goal Zero is achievable. Lastly, we continue to focus on our allocation of capital, and during the quarter, we not only invested in supporting the growth and improvement in our business, but we bought back $32 million of debt. Cheryl will provide a few more details on our leverage. Now I'll turn the call over to Damian to review current market dynamics and pricing trends. Damian?

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